TheEye often sets the quiz in the local Hostility and has been known to deeply upset the compilers of other quizzes on a good night.

Hence knowing, for example, that in landlocked Utah state it is illegal to hunt whales. In the event that you ever win a pub quiz with this as the tie-breaker then you owe TheEye a large G&T.

However further strangeness beckons. In Florida it is specifically illegal to have sex with a porcupine. And so what do two stupid Russians do? Yes, you’ve guessed.

Staying in Florida on holiday, the two from Saint Petersburg decided to check whether they could ignore this unusual law or not.

Consequences appeared to be rather unfortunate. The poor chaps had to take needles from their genitals and treatment for inflammation over several months.

Having arrived in the USA, the Russians were given the book about the craziest American laws. For example, in Colombia sex – other than in a missionary position – is forbidden; in Kentucky it is forbidden to bring a lion to a movie theatre; and as we now know in Florida it is strictly forbidden to have sex with porcupines.

Doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center made the following diagnosis: ‘needles of a porcupine in genitals’.

At first 32-year-old Anton and 30-year-old Eugenie had a good laugh at the senseless law written by local authorities. And then, after helping themselves with whisky, they decided to break it.

“We came here to the USA to have fun!” said Anton and the two friends started their searches for the so called American “hedgehog”. It took them less than an hour to find a suitable animal.

With victorious shouts the drunken friends dropped their trousers and started making unambiguous movements with their hips. Having sobered up the following morning the friends realized that they need medical assistance. So the animal-lovers had to go from the airport straight to hospital, Life.Ru reports.

“The most positive thing about the situation is that the Russian tourists did not have to stand trial in Florida. They left the state just in time,” said the doctors at the hospital.

Now American laws do not seem so amusing to Anton and Eugenie. After returning to Moscow they had to get acquainted with Russian urologists because apparently the porcupine needles caused very strong inflammation.

TheEye will stick to whale-hunting in Utah.